as in maybe
it is possible
he may possibly recover after such a serious mistake, but it doesn't seem likely
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Recent Examples of possibly
Higher tariffs and tax cuts could push inflation higher, while deregulation could possibly reduce it.
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Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Call it a love letter as well, penned with undying admiration and possibly a soupçon of nostalgia but not an ounce of sentimentality, for a New Yawk that may as well be the Victorian era.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
Sources say the studio is looking to possibly shoot in Los Angeles, but nothing has been set.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
TikTok Users and the Five Stages of Grief The reactions across what may possibly serve as the final week of the app's operations in the U.S. have shown every one of the five stages of grief, and on the final day before the shutdown, acceptance is setting in.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
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Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Call it a love letter as well, penned with undying admiration and possibly a soupçon of nostalgia but not an ounce of sentimentality, for a New Yawk that may as well be the Victorian era.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
Sources say the studio is looking to possibly shoot in Los Angeles, but nothing has been set.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
TikTok Users and the Five Stages of Grief The reactions across what may possibly serve as the final week of the app's operations in the U.S. have shown every one of the five stages of grief, and on the final day before the shutdown, acceptance is setting in.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for possibly
Adverb
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And these kinds of difficult conversations may have to continue for months—maybe years.—
Jonaki Mehta,
NPR,
30 Jan. 2025
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The return Miami gets for Butler is likely to be bridge assets that get Miami to the summer of 2026, when a potentially big free agency class might intersect with lots of Heat spending money and maybe one last whale hunt by Riley.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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Meet Trump's pick for director of national intelligence Gabbard faces perhaps the most difficult route to confirmation of all of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks.—
Lucien Bruggeman,
ABC News,
30 Jan. 2025
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Around that time, perhaps realizing DeepSeek’s potential and amid the Chinese government’s regulatory crackdown on quantitative trading, Liang started to scale down High-Flyer to focus on the new firm.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
30 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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This is probably better answered by fortune tellers and movie makers.—
Chris Boudreau,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2025
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Oaks are probably our best types locally, followed by pecans.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Possibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/possibly. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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